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South Africa shields Robert Mugabe at UN
timesonline.co.uk — South Africa led efforts to block the dispatch of a UN envoy to Zimbabwe yesterday as the UN Security Council met on the election stand-off for the first time. Diplomats said that South African opposition to a UN mission meant that the next step would probably be a public meeting of the 15-nation Security Council on Zimbabwe...
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- reflex768, on 04/30/2008, -0/+19Really depressing to see. Mbeki's "quiet diplomacy" was once merely acquiescent, but it now seems to have transformed into an overtly supportive alliance with Mugabe. It's very hard to understand why Mbeki is so willing to sustain the enormous damage he is doing to his personal reputation and his country's geostrategic position. It would seem obvious that South Africa stands to benefit the most from a transition in Zimbabwe to a stable, democratic and open society, governed by popular consent and ruled by laws, instead of arbitary terror.
- poidh, on 04/30/2008, -0/+4Mbeki is the same guy who blamed HIV/AIDS on poverty/evil white men isn't he? Sounds like he's a couple of war veterans short of a farm invasion.
- diggafrica, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Mbeki a fool
- ManoWar, on 04/30/2008, -1/+1He is trying his best to keep his head.
- jwk4heels, on 04/30/2008, -0/+2Dugg for the word "geostrategic"
- rz8472, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Unfortunately people still admire Mugabe for what he did (rightly) in the 80s as a resistance leader. After all, many Chinese people still admire Mao even after the Cultural Revolution and prefer to think of the "kinder, gentler" Mao of the 1930s when he led the ragtag Communist Army to Yunnan.
- metric7, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Mbeki plans to do the same thing in South Africa, hes already turning a blind eye to the slaughter of white farmers by black criminal gangs.
- poidh, on 04/30/2008, -0/+4Mbeki is the same guy who blamed HIV/AIDS on poverty/evil white men isn't he? Sounds like he's a couple of war veterans short of a farm invasion.
- jellygraph, on 04/30/2008, -0/+11Whats with South Africa and seemingly supporting Mugabi? Kinda disturbing
- metric7, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Kinda?
- OfNumbers, on 04/30/2008, -0/+4http://www.pinknews.co.uk/images/tatchellmugabe.jp ...
- LifesBlogger, on 04/30/2008, -2/+0Mugabi needs support, without South Aferica he'll pretty much get shut down.
- bromac, on 04/30/2008, -2/+4Isn't South Africa the nation that's allowing transport of weapons through its territory to Zimbabwe?
Something's rotten in Capetown. Someone's getting paid off for this.- poidh, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1It used to until people noticed. Now it doesn't.
- anaphylaxis, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1No, maybe and no, not for that
- poidh, on 04/30/2008, -1/+19From apartheid to mediocrity. Well done South Africa.
- metric7, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1From first world nuclear armed nation to third world *****, It's not really surprising though.
- TheThirdLevel, on 04/30/2008, -1/+1Mugabe reminds me of that one guy from the Bourne Identity.
"You better kill me dead. You better kill me in my sleep." And then his guard gets shot in the head. - InTheBurbs, on 04/30/2008, -1/+5After so many years under an effective dictatorship it's nice to see South Africa has advanced enough that they're willing to step back and give another country a shot at it.
/Sarcasm - gab00n, on 04/30/2008, -0/+5You think that's bad, just wait until Zuma becomes president of South Africa.
- novenator, on 04/30/2008, -0/+8Wait a minute, you're telling me that the racist ANC govt of South Africa might do something to help Mugabe, the master of Zimbabwe's ethnic cleansing against white farmers? no way
- trendygamer, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3I don't think anyone is gonna say that apartheid was a better method of governing. It's gone and deservedly so. Still, it is a shame to see how far Africa's only real economic powerhouse has fallen since the ANC has come to power. South Africa's crime rates in particular have gone through the roof in recent years. Unless they reverse course soon, we're gonna be watching what was a strong nation fall apart before our eyes...and then you'll have some moron blaming "the blacks." Here's hoping South Africa can find some new, good black leaders to turn itself around so we can avoid that racial crapfest.
- mitchlourens, on 05/01/2008, -1/+4or a white leader that can bring it back up. Just saying, coming from someone who lived in SA.
- AndreGerber, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2I have to agree. At the moment the DA is the only thing standing in the way of SA becoming the second Zimbabwe.
- metric7, on 05/01/2008, -1/+1So naive trendy.
- mitchlourens, on 05/01/2008, -1/+4or a white leader that can bring it back up. Just saying, coming from someone who lived in SA.
- trendygamer, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3I don't think anyone is gonna say that apartheid was a better method of governing. It's gone and deservedly so. Still, it is a shame to see how far Africa's only real economic powerhouse has fallen since the ANC has come to power. South Africa's crime rates in particular have gone through the roof in recent years. Unless they reverse course soon, we're gonna be watching what was a strong nation fall apart before our eyes...and then you'll have some moron blaming "the blacks." Here's hoping South Africa can find some new, good black leaders to turn itself around so we can avoid that racial crapfest.
- diggafrica, on 04/30/2008, -1/+0Thabo Mbeki is a goat
- Treoinmypocket, on 04/30/2008, -0/+4Shoot him.
- jahayiti, on 05/01/2008, -2/+1Law and Justice
- HardChargerxxx, on 05/01/2008, -3/+2Vote for Botha!
- pinguwin, on 05/01/2008, -2/+0I understand them being reluctant to be seen as doing anything that would appear negative to someone who to many was once a hero and still is to some (albeit fewer). But for heaven's sakes, Mbeki, give Mugabe a nice villa, high walls, cars, servants, let him take his loot and lackeys, and a no-extradition guarantee. End this farce.
- coffee200am, on 05/01/2008, -1/+6Weren't things way better in Zimbabwe before the "revolution"??
- aschocobo, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1only if you were white.
- XFARB6, on 05/01/2008, -2/+3OK. When do we invade?
- willywong, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Next Tuesday. Bring guns and beer.
- Stevanoski, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3S.Africa now firmly in the communist hands.
- ravenswing2, on 05/01/2008, -2/+2Who cares? It will fail there just like it has failed everywhere else. Then we can move in, take all of the areable land, and feed the 1/2 of the world that will be starving by then. Should we do that? Naaaaaa. Lets invade Venezuala instead.
- BertEatsDirt, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Just goes to show what a wuss Thabo Mbeki is. His own party disagrees with his stance against Mugabe, the church in South Africa has spoken out against Mugabe, and the unions in South Africa disagreed with the government about that shipment of weapons that was bound for Zimbabwe and ordered their workers not to unload it. It seems everyone else in South Africa has a spine and is prepared to use it, just not the head of the government!
- Stevanoski, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Wuss might be a tad strong, after all he is in a country where they eat your liver afer they kill you.
- cheekybastard, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Mbeki doesn't want the rest of Zimbabwe's population flooding South Africa if sanctions are enforced. As far as the UN SC goes, China and Russia are the only votes that count. http://www.un.org/sc/members.asp
Leaders who are ruthless, self absorbed, greedy bastards dominate African governments and they deserve most of the blame for what goes on there. There is still enough blame to go around for the amoral American, British, Chinese and European corporations (and their 'pro business' governments) who deal with these leaders, give money and give them legitimacy, while their people suffer. - BradMajors, on 05/01/2008, -3/+1Regardless of your opinion of Mugabe, the recent election results is something with which the UN should not be getting involved.
- BertEatsDirt, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Why's that?
- feanix, on 05/01/2008, -1/+3God. I'm South African and this is as bad to me as Chamberlin cosying up to Hitler. I'm so ****ing glad I emmigrated.
- armisteadbooker, on 06/18/2008, -0/+0The band Dispatch is asking everyone to show your support for the people of Zimbabwe... really awesome video too.
http://dispatchfoundation.org
http://digg.com/arts_culture/Dispatch_Foundation_J ... - Nashief, on 07/01/2008, -0/+0By now he should have been dead already.
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